To me
traveling isn’t about how far you have been it is what you have experienced. If
you travel to the other side of the world only to sit in four blank walls then
you have not really travelled at all , you have experienced nothing. You could
walk half a mile up the road and explore a forest, or drive to the nearest
beach and dip you toes in the ocean but this does not make you less of a traveler
than the person globetrotting.
Sometimes
exploring is about appreciating what’s right in front of you rather than glamorous
slights miles away. Appreciating your home town’s glory goes not undermine
world famous land marks like the Eiffel Tower or The Pyramids it just means that you can appreciate what is
around you . Instead of longing for escape by the means of somewhere foreign,try to seek
something new within your community , climb a new tree , visit a new coffee
shop travel and exploring isn’t about how far you have traveled it is about
what you have seen , felt , heard or tasted.
My final
request is please don’t travel somewhere so you can boast about where you have been or even so
you can plaster your Instagram with beautiful sights , you can by all means show your
appreciation though photographs , possibly capture memories but don’t visit somewhere just so you can say
that you have been. That is visiting for the sake of and is a waste of time. Visit
somewhere because you want to take something from that place because you want
to experience that place. It's smell, it's feeling or even its sun blazing down on
your skin.
Enjoy your
time travelling, enjoy you time exploring please make the most of where you
have been and where you are going to go. You don't have to go far to be a traveler. Do not value the sights on your doorstep
less than the ones one another’s enjoy where you are wherever you are.
Always,
Lauren
Twitter- @LaurenCats7
Instagram –
redhairedcatlady
At the
moment I am reading: Game of Thrones by George R R Martian
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